Sugar Free Peanut Butter Stuffed Cookies

These Sugar Free Peanut Butter Stuffed Cookies are really the best of so many good flavors!

Made with chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough that is stuffed with creamy peanut butter, these bakery style cookies are soft and chewy with chocolate and peanut butter in every bite!

What makes chocolate chip cookies stuffed with peanut butter so good?

Chocolate chip cookies stuffed with peanut butter have about everything we love in a cookie- a soft and chewy chocolate chip exterior with a creamy gooey peanut butter interior.

I like the combination of a familiar cookie (chocolate chip) with the element of surprise.

Have you tried my recipe for Sugar Free Chocolate Stuffed Cookies?

Those stuffed cookies have a chocolate chip cookie exterior with a hazelnut spread interior. Both this recipe for peanut butter stuffed chocolate cookies and that recipe for hazelnut spread stuffed chocolate chip cookies are recipes for great tasting decadent chocolate chip cookies that are studded with something yummy!

Mini sized no added sugar chocolate chips are used in making these cookies. You can find sugar free mini chocolate chips here.

What you need to make peanut butter filled cookies.

Stuffing

• Sugar Free Creamy Peanut Butter Crunchy peanut butter and organic peanut butter will not work in this recipe.
• Sugar Free Powdered Sugar.
• Vanilla Extract. Just a small amount is used to help bring out the peanut butter flavor.

Cookie Dough

• Flour Regular all purpose flour.
• Unsweetened Cocoa Powder.
• Cornstarch. This helps the cookies stay soft.
• Baking Powder and Baking Soda. Both leaveners are used.
• Salt. You can omit this if you are using salted butter.
• Unsalted Butter. Softened to room temperature.
• Brown Sugar Alternative and White Sugar Alternative. For best results, use alternatives that measure like regular sugar and that can also be baked with.
• Eggs. Large eggs at room temperature.
• Sugar Free Chocolate Mini Chips. Regular sized chocolate chips can be used if they are chopped in half but, they may not look as nice in your cookies.

How to make Sugar Free Peanut Butter Stuffed Cookies

• Prep Time: 25 .
• Bake Time: 10-12 minutes .
• Servings: 18 .
• How to Serve: Serve with milk or with beverage of choice.
• Notes: To make this you will need cookie sheets, parchment paper, medium mixing bowls, and a large mixing bowl in a stand mixer with paddle attachment .

1. Filling.Line a rimmed baking sheet (or tray or large plate), that can fit into your freezer, with parchment paper. In a medium bowl, combine together your peanut butter, sugar free powdered sugar, and vanilla extract until smooth like a dough. Then use a tablespoon to drop dollops of the mixture on to your prepared baking sheet. Place the baking sheet into your freezer for the dollops to firm up while you make the cookie dough.
2. Dry Ingredients. In a medium bowl, use a whisk to combine together the flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
3. Butter. Beat together your sugar alternatives (white and brown) with the butter until creamy (about two to three minutes on medium). Make sure that you are using a paddle attachments for this.
4. Eggs. Take the mixer down to slow and then add the eggs, one at a time, and then the vanilla extract mixing until combined
5. Combine. Slowly add the dry ingredients (from the second step) to the mixing bowl and mix until just combined.
6. Chocolate Chips. Remove two tablespoons of the chocolate chips and set them aside. Then use a rubber spatula or similar item to fold the remaining chocolate chips into the cookie batter.
7. Chill. Cover the mixing bowl and refrigerate the cookie batter for a half hour.
8. Prepare. When you are ready to make your cookies, preheat your oven to 375f and prep a baking sheet for nonstick (parchment paper or a baking mat should work).
9. Dough. To form your cookies, use a large cookie scoop to scoop out the dough. Use your thumb to make an indentation in the dough and then place a frozen peanut butter dollop into the indentation. Close up the dough around the peanut butter and then place the cookies on to your baking sheet about two and a half inches apart from another.
10. Bake. When all of your cookies have been formed, stuffed, and placed on to your baking sheet you can place the baking sheet into your oven and bake for 10-12 minutes or until the cookies seem set with a bit of cracking around the edges.
11. Cool. Immediately, and carefully, press a few of the reserved chocolate chips into the top of each cookie just after you take the cookies out of the oven. Then allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 20 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack to fully cool.

Tips for making the best peanut butter stuffed chocolate cookies.

When selecting peanut butter, use a creamy peanut butter to keep the center of the cookies smooth. Natural peanut butter will not work in this recipe as they tend to be oily.

More helpful tips for you.

1. Freezing the peanut butter center filling in dollops is an important step in this recipe. This ensures that each cookie has the same amount of filling in it and, because it is frozen when added, the peanut butter filling is less likely to melt into the cookie dough.
2. Reserving the tablespoon of chocolate chips is done to to make the cookies look more attractive when served. This step is purely for aesthetic reasons and is completely optional as you can add those chocolate chips into the dough with the other chocolate chips.
3. You can eat these cookies warm but, take caution that the inside will be very hot and runny. This can cause a burnt mouth or mess.

How to store peanut butter stuffed chocolate chip cookies.

Once the cookies have fully cooled and set, they should be stored in an airtight container with parchment paper between layers. When properly stored, they should keep for up to five days at room temperature or up to a week when refrigerated (sit on the counter for a few minutes before serving), or frozen for up to a few months (thaw before serving). .

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• Sugar Free Triple Chocolate Cookies
• Sugar Free Cool Whip Cookies
• 3 Ingredient Sugar Free Peanut Butter Cookies
• Sugar Free Kitchen Sink Cookies
• Sugar Free Chocolate Chip ‘Sugar’ Cookies
• Sugar Free Mexican Wedding Cookies